SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sakine Cansız

1958 - 2013

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Sakine Cansız (Turkish pronunciation: [saːciˈne dʒanˈsɯz]; Kurdish: Sakîne Cansiz, IPA: [sɑːkiːnɛ dʒɑːnsɪz]; 1958 – 9 January 2013) was one of the co-founders of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). A Kurdish activist in the 1980s, she was arrested and tortured by Turkish police. A close associate of Abdullah Öcalan and a senior member of the PKK, she was shot dead during the triple murder of Kurdish activists in Paris, France, on 9 January 2013, along with two other female Kurdish activists, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sakine Cansız is the 554th most popular social activist (down from 522nd in 2019), the 1,190th most popular biography from Türkiye (down from 1,160th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Turkish Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sakine Cansız ranks 554 out of 840. Before her are Fazu Aliyeva, Bagha Jatin, Oswaldo Payá, Wolfe Tone, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, and Roger Stone. After her are Marie Stritt, Aslı Erdoğan, Jerry Rubin, Mina Ahadi, Emily Davies, and Bram Fischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Sakine Cansız ranks 322. Before her are Frank Mill, Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Michael Flatley, Georgi Slavkov, Habib Koité, and Luiz Carlos Ferreira. After her are Shafi Goldwasser, Olivier Grouillard, Jeffrey Williams, Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo, Jean-Max Bellerive, and Tomatito. Among people deceased in 2013, Sakine Cansız ranks 376. Before her are Denys de La Patellière, David Landes, Jiah Khan, Harold Agnew, Peter Gilmore, and Lucyna Winnicka. After her are Edward Stevens, Nobuyuki Aihara, Walter Jens, Josef Němec, Regina Bianchi, and Atje Keulen-Deelstra.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Sakine Cansız ranks 1,190 out of 1,347. Before her are Bülent Korkmaz (1968), Georgi Valkovich (1833), Ali Bozer (1925), Feridun Buğeker (1933), Suat Mamat (1930), and Tanju Çolak (1963). After her are Aras Bulut İynemli (1990), Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Güler Sabancı (1955), İbrahim Çelikkol (1982), Varlam Avanesov (1884), and Sadi Irmak (1904).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Türkiye

Among social activists born in Türkiye, Sakine Cansız ranks 5. Before her are Hrant Dink (1954), Deniz Gezmiş (1947), Mari Beyleryan (1877), and İbrahim Kaypakkaya (1949). After her are Aslı Erdoğan (1967), Eren Keskin (1959), Cenk Uygur (1970), Hande Kader (1993), Murder of Özgecan Aslan (1995), and Saadet Özkan (1978).

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